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Hey y'all! Should be self explanatory. Please note that while some of these were typed out by myself and by hand, they are probably not 100% accurate, but I got as close as I could. The original broadcast can be found here, at Gaia Radio. Zombilious provided the rest, and is used with permission.

Interview between The Pink Piper & Skye Reisato

PP: How does it feel to be the new captain of Gaia-Zine?
SR: I expect it to be a lot of work, to be honest. Some of the staff are still loyal to Amensu, despite his shortcomings, and others dislike me because I haven't been around Gaia-zine as long.

PP: What will you do to make Gaia-Zine better?
SR: That's a long list. First, I expect to hire a lot of new graphics artists and writers, to get issues out on time. I'll be removing Amensu's personal stuff from the guild, although guild items that he happened to be the one to post will stay, of course. I'll be contacting advertisers, working on Gaia-zine's reputation, and on and on...

PP: What will you do differently than Amensu Saje or Kloob to make the guild run smoother?
SR: Kloob never actually ran the guild. He only shifted captaincy from Amensu to me. I'll be different from Amensu by not stealing from the guild, being more involved to make sure it's produced on time, and hopefully having better relationships with the other Gaian magazines.

PP: Do you believe that Gaia-Zine will bounce back as one of the top magazine guilds?
SR: I certainly hope so. Amensu dug a deep hole for us to climb out of, but I'm confident that we can manage it if we pull together.

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Provided by Zombilious, head of Gaia Radio
Used with permission

PP - The Pink Piper
SR - Skye Reisato

Interview between The Pink Piper and Amensu Saje
PP: How long had you been CEO of Gaia-Zine prior to recent scandal?
AS: I actually created the guild back in 2010. I had the idea and wanted to create something that would make a difference on Gaia and the users of Gaia as well as myself could enjoy and feel like we were doing something big and making a difference on the site and that was for not quite a year and a half, uhh…, prior to the scandal took place recently.
PP: How well do you believe treated your staff?
AS: For the most part I’ve treated them very well. Uhh, we have our issues and problems and conflicts, nuh, just like any business or organization does, uh, but I try to treat everybody like equals and not treat any better than others, uh, or treat some like they do not mean as much to the guild as the others do, because in my eyes we all do something and we all make the magazine what it is, nuh, even the regular members of the guild make it what it is because we would not be able to be where we are at without them.
PP: What was the state of the guild before the gold scandal?
AS: The guild was actually starting to pick up its pace quite a bit. Things were really turning around and starting to look up for us. We have finished in two days, uh, for the fourth issue what we had not done for the entire time for the third issue, we had the cover pretty much finished, it was having to be edited after some of the staff left and were having to be taken off the cover, um, pages were finished, we had nearly 15 pages finished on the first day, uh, as well as others being worked on, articles were finished and waiting to be put onto the pages and things were moving very well and bringing in new staff and such, and we were actually thinking that things were starting to look up, eh, quite a bit for the guild.
PP: Were you aware, that some of the staff members, including me, have not been paid for some of the work at Gaia-Zine?
AS: Yes I was aware that, d’uh, some, that… well you were actually the only one that had not been paid yet, and I was aware of it. Uh, but it was only because there was a trade of two thousand gold waiting for you to accept on your end that was for an advertisement that you had purchased, um, and I could not send your one hundred thousand gold payment until that trade was accepted, but I would like it to be noted that I was absent from Gaia from three to four days, uh, but the… when I did get back and was able to get online, then the very first thing that I did was send you your one hundred thousand as payment as well as an extra twenty five thousand gold as a thank you and as an apology for the long wait that you had during my absence from Gaia, and if you could I would really appreciate it if you would confirm that for the listeners because I want them to know that I am telling the truth and that I am not lying at all.
PP: And I do confirm that.
PP: How much gold were you accused of embezzling?
AS: I was accused of embezzling 6,723,000 gold which I will once again say is completely false. Um, the so called evidence that, eh, Skye gave, uh, would make most people think otherwise but I don’t know what was going on, eh, from what I found out apparently a friend, uh, was hacking me and doing that stuff, uh, sometime…sometimes from their house and sometimes even from my house, um, but I did, eh, agree to replace it with ten million gold even though I did not, uh, take any, just as, uh, what I would consider a donation to Gaia-Zine and a way to try and, uh, let things settle down and calm down, and I… within one day I replaced 1.6 million and was in the process of, uh, sending another 3.2 million when I was banned and so I was unable to give that gold to the guild and will now have to figure how I will replace the gold that was missing, nuh, without being able to sell the items and such that I have on the account of Amensu Saje since he was banned from Gaia a few days ago.
PP: And how do you feel about these accusations?
AS: I’m actually very offended by these, because, uh, most of the people are actually thinking I did it should know me better, and I thought knew me better and were my friends, but as soon they had thought that I had stole some gold from Gaia-Zine, they turned on me and I started losing business affiliates on Gaia and users I have been working with since the day I had joined Gaia, and they began accusing me as well. So it’s actually very hurtful that people would think I would actually do such a thing to my guild and to the users of Gaia with something that I had worked so hard on and with something that I had worked to try to build up the image of.
PP: Did you use any guild out of the mule account? If so, what for?
AS: I did use some, yes, but it was not near that much, and most of it was for advertising Gaia-Zine which is something Gaia-Zine is supposed to pay for itself, and I bought two bloodstone amulets when they first came out. I bought two of them for 350,000 total, they were about 175,000 apiece. One was a gift for my brother, I will admit, but it was so he would be able to go in to deadman’s shadow, and he is only ten years old and would be, uh, unable to raise the gold his self because he doesn’t really understand how to, eh, do that stuff right now and is still learning, so he, eh, would, he doesn’t really understand how to go about it, so I thought that, eh, Gaia-Zine would be able to help him out and, eh, just consider it a gift to a user of Gaia, but then other gold I used was for random gifts for users around Gaia from Gaia-Zine to help get the name of Gaia-Zine out to them, I would get them a gift as well as a link to the guild, and would request that they join the guild and participate in reading, uh, the releases and, uh, in the activity of the guild and whatever contests and events we may have, and I had to buy graphics and art and all that stuff for the guild which costs a lot, but when it comes down to it, uh, all the gold that I used for that would total around between four and four point five million gold, uh, but it was all to further the name of Gaia-Zine, and try to bring in more users and bring us more attention within the guild, and I did not use any of it for my own personal gain or for the items that I owned that, except for the bloodstone amulet, uh, that I was accused of buying, uh, with the Gaia-Zine secretary and giving to myself. Uh, all of the items that I had I had worked very hard for and, uh, had been doing so for the three plus years that I was on Gaia before I got banned, and I can’t even imagine that some of the users here that think I did it would ever accuse me of doing that I would think that they would know that I do not do that and completely refuse to do something like that.
PP: How did you feel when you were reported to moderators for embezzling gold?
AS: I was very upset, and I guess even mad, you could say, because of being reported for something that I didn’t’nt, that I did not do, sorry. Uh, I, uh… got online and found I was being reported by, uh, god knows how many users for something that I was being accused of doing but had not done, and with this so called proof that they had I knew that, uh, the odds were strongly against me standing any chance of not being banned, so I, uh, knew that from there on I was most likely going to end up banned at some point, and I thought about transferring my gold and items to a different account, but I decided that I would accept these consequences, which might sound weird to some of you, but I, uh, just thought that I would take my stand and, uh, stick with it and see what I could do, and decided that it would be, in some ways, somewhat unfair if I did transfer everything to a different account, and decided I would just take things as they came.
PP: Why did you pick Kloob to fill in as temporary Captain after you were banned?
AS: I actually did not pick him, he took over without my permission, or without consulting me, and then, uh, his very first, uh, move as, uh, the so called acting CEO of Gaia-Zine was to demote every single one of the Gaia-Zine mule accounts, eh, and as well as some of my, uh, staff who were on there, he uh demoted one or two of them as well. Uh, but I sent him a message asking him what he was doing, and, eh, and he, because I saw that he demoted all those accounts and promoted Skye Reisato, and I apologize if I’m her, um, mispronouncing your name, but he promoted her to vice captain, so I, eh, knew that things were not looking up from there when he’s the one who took over and is friends with everybody in our competing magazines as well as owning his own.
PP: Did you trust Kloob to handle the guild well, and follow your rules even though you were banned?
AS: Once I saw, uh, what he had done for his first act as the, uh, supposed acting CEO of Gaia-Zine then I knew he could not be trusted and was not quite sure what he would do so to answer the question, no, I did not trust him at all, and I honestly don’t think I will ever trust him again, although he has been a friend, so I thought on Gaia-Zine, uh, in Gaia-Zine and on Gaia for a very long time.
PP: Did you have any say-so in picking the new Captain, Skye Reisato?
AS: No, I didn’t, uh, I’d like it to be noted that she is not to be the Captain of the guild anymore, but, eh, I still did not have any say-so when Kloob put her in control, and put her as Captain. I was very strongly against it, and he knew that but, eh, for some reason, uh, I dunno if it’s because he’s friends with them or what, but he saw fit to put, uh, the one who was, was and is, responsible for my being banned, uh, as Captain of the guild, and, eh, honestly find it all very, eh, fishy and, eh, noncoincidental, that uh, he, she just comes in, and then starts something like that and then just happens to end up being one of the, uh, highest ranks in the guild and then becomes Captain, eh, so I don’t know what’s going on but I will figure everything out at some point.
PP: Do you think she will be able to handle the guild as well as you did before the scandal?
AS: Absolutely not. I cannot honestly or truthfully say that I think she is fit to run Gaia-Zine at all, let alone, uh, let alone any magazine guild whatsoever. Um, she is too controlling and thinks she is right as soon as she sees something and, uh, jumps to conclusions without actually finding out, uh, how things really are and she doesn’t keep things among staff where they should be, she take, she takes them out to the Gaia public instead when they should be privately discussed in the guild staff so I really don’t think she is fit to run anything like Gaia-Zine at all.
PP: Will you still be in control of the guild mule account?
AS: Absolutely. Eh, if I don’t end up with control of Gaia-Zine back, then they will have to create a new mule account, new mule accounts because the accounts that are there at the current point in time are my, uh, own accounts that I created so they can not, uh, take those and take control of them so unless they want to create their own and do it all over and give them, give theirs, uh, different names than the current ones, then I will, uh, most definitely be in control of the mule accounts.
PP: Will you ever return to Gaia-Zine?
AS: I definitely will, um, I am hoping to return as the CEO, but we have no idea how that is going to go, a meeting is being set up with Kloob, Skye, and myself and two impartial witnesses, uh, it will be a private meeting and that’s when we will discuss it all and find out if I will be getting Gaia-Zine back or not, but I will definitely be coming back, eh, in some way, shape, or form.
PP: What do you believe will be the future of Gaia-Zine?
AS: I think Gaia-Zine is gonna prosper, very much, um, I think the guild will, eh, be able to, eh, keep moving forward, keep pressing forward, and in the end just be overall better and stronger from this, eh, Gaia-Zine has went through things before nothing as major as this but things that have helped it build stronger and we always pulled through no matter what the circumstances are and I just feel that we will keep pressing forward even from this and, eh, we will just continue getting better and better and learning from this, and learn from the mistakes and lies that are being spread and made right now.
PP: Any final comments you would like to tell our listeners?
AS: I just want everybody to know that I am very sorry for this whole incident, I did not take the gold they are accusing me of taking but now that Amensu Saje has been banned I have no way of proving that to people, uh, like I said that private meeting is being set with me and those four others, uh, and that’s when we’ll decide if I can resume my position as CEO of Gaia-Zine or not, uh, Kloob being the somewhat two-faced friend he’s been has stated he wants me back as CEO and Captain and thinks that’s what’s best for the guild right now, uh, he has also stated that he does realize that this would quite possibly mean, uh, that he would lose his job at Gaia-Zine for the way he’s acted, and the actions he’s made, e’um, and, eh, I… I may have lost all of my items that I have worked so hard for, uh, for over three years, and all of my extremely necessary information for Gaia-Zine and all of my images and symbols and everything in my journal that I need very badly, but that stuff could somehow be done without or regained upon more years of working, eh, or searching for things or something like that, and the items are just pixels, eh, so I can do without all of that crap that Gaia-Zine however is much bigger than all of that stuff, it’s more important to me than anything on Gaia and I would never do anything to harm it or destroy it, should I have the honor of returning I will somehow think of what everything was that I was in the middle of doing and then I will do it. I will have the help of the loyal staff who have supported me through everything as well as the users who have supported me. Eh, we will press forward and we will become, eh, bigger and stronger from this whole thing, but, Gaia-Zine is going to keep going and we are going to come back and will come bigger and stronger and much harder than we did before.

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Transmitted by A Glass Passenger directly from production cut
PP: The Pink Piper
AS: Amensu Saje

Not done yet. Got an interview with Kloob too!

Now now, I'll give you a chance to defend yourself. Lets get official statements.

I wonder if they will have a follow up where they get opinions of the listeners.

Though I wish I could be on it but I am highly bias against Amensu. I didn't like him ever since the art scandal. He lied once and I believe he is lying now.

Dont worry, Zomb. I give credit to my sources.

And all of the articles are up!